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...agreements. But the new government's platform fudges these questions. It pledges to pursue Palestinian "national unity," to promote transparency and fight corruption, to "end all forms of chaos" and to establish a national security council to oversee internal security. It pledges to "respect" past agreements and also the Saudi peace initiative adopted by the Arab League in 2002 (which offers full recognition of Israel and normalization of relations in exchange for a withdrawal to the Jewish State's 1967 borders, and a "just solution" to the Palestinian refugee issue). But it offers no explicit recognition of Israel. And while...
...playing a delicate game of making only oblique concessions that allow it to maintain credibility on the streets and with its own hard-line militants, some of whom are chafing at the notion of any accommodation with sworn enemies. Youssuf also said the movement might respond positively to the Saudi initiative - a hint, though hardly a promise, of implicitly recognizing Israel...
...Hellhole Gang are distinguished by their pragmatism, which has allowed them to serve under Presidents of both parties. The team includes Rice's new deputy, John Negroponte, who was the first U.S. ambassador to post-Saddam Baghdad; David Satterfield, Rice's special adviser on Iraq, who served in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; Anne Patterson, former ambassador to Colombia, who oversees law-enforcement training in Iraq and Afghanistan; Welch, who was in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad in 1979 when it was seized by a violent mob; Nicholas Burns, Rice's No. 3, a Balkan-wars specialist and the point...
...Despite the sequestration of the dissident Buddhists, Hanoi's communist leaders have been working hard to dispel the country's reputation for persecuting religion. After the U.S. in 2004 placed Vietnam on its list of "Countries of Particular Concern" for blocking religious freedom (North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China are all on the list), Hanoi passed a new law outlining ways for non-state religions to gain official approval. The next year, it allowed Nhat Hanh to return to Vietnam for the first time in 40 years. Late last year, Washington removed Vietnam from the religious-freedom blacklist...
...warm, and the Haitian painting on her bookshelf is a reminder of her own heritage. Her parents immigrated from Haiti to New York City, where Gay was born. With her father working for the U.S. government, Gay spent most of her childhood abroad in places as far away as Saudi Arabia. She later attended a New Hampshire boarding school, then studied economics at Stanford. While there, she first encountered the problem of finding the data to answer the questions she thought needed answering. “The challenge of relying on surveys done on the national population is that African...